Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-22
CHEER FOR THE DISHEARTEAEl
DIR. TAIMAGE AT KANSAS CITY

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TO Large Congregation on oheeF i''
| the Disheartened."
KANSAS Ilry Mo-. March 3o.--fhe an
| nouucement that Rev. I. De WIZ lH'''''s' ,
| the eminent Brooklyn divine Nou"i
| preach at the Second Prcshs terrain shufoh
| YESTERDAY morning vas suliic eht 70 ~
| tract n vast crowd OF church going people 10
| that D ace of worship long before the time SET
| for the service At 1879 almost every seat III
| the main auditorium was occupied "hie
| great crowds OF people were trying 10 ge' seats
| in the gallery, and the ushcrs were rapidS hi-
| ING up the aisles with camp stools AMI c1alrs'
| few minutes later the organ soinded tne
prelude and every nook and corucr ol lhc
buildiny was occupied, while yet the doors NJ
| he ,nain entrance were still locked and the
| crowd on the outside, numbering many nun
dreds renamed unable to gam auInl'tauce
| II was sad disappointment, and many nm
| percd throughout the service TO catch Tue
| words of eloquence that fell from the lips Oh
| the great preacher =,
| pressiye nature, and al;er Il beautiful expqsi-
| ton of the parable of HE prodgal son, Dr..
| 1alrnage gave out the hymn beginning:
Jesus lover OF INV soul.
Let me to thy bosom hy,
His subject WIS Cheer for the DisheGrt-
ennd and his text, Psalm cxlii., verse 4: NO
man cared for my soul" DR.. Talnage said
rayid the rubcoud lad had become the
battle-scarrca warrior; 5000 armed men IN
pursuit of him, he had hidden in the cave OF
Enredi, pear the coast of the Dead sea. u
terry tagged out with the pursuit, as You have
often been worn out with the trials of lie, he
sat down and cried out: mo man cared lor
my soul"
If YOU should fall through hatchway, or
slip from scrifoding, or drop through a sky
light there would be hundreds OF people VINO
would come around and PICK up yonr bouy
and carry it to the home or to the hospital. l
saw great crowd of people in the street, and
asked: 'What is the matter" and found
out that poor la6oring man had fallen under
sunstruke, and all our eyes we're filled with
tears at the thought of his distracted vile
and his desolated hone. We are all SYM
pathetic with physical disaster. but how little
sympathy for spiritual woesl There are men
in this house who have come to midlile who
have never vet been once personally accost-
ed about their eternal welfare great ser
mon dropped into an audience of hundreds of
thousands will do its work, but if this world
is ever to be brought TO God it will be through
little sermons preached by private Christians
to an audience of one. The sisters letter
postmarlled at the village; the word uttered in
your hearing half of smiles and half of tears,
the religious postscript to a business letter;
the card left at the door when you had some
hlnu u uDuut, lHC uHAibuS iopN VI ooHC VIC
across a church aisle while an earnest sermon
was being preached, swung you into the king
dom OF God.
have g friend who is physician in Cincin-
natl, who became impressed with a desire for
the salvation of his brother physician Ore
day he called at the Office of the physician anu,
not finding hun in, left his card with the serT
ant, telling him to give the doctor MY love
when he returned" The physician, upon re-
ceiving the card and the message SAID: 81
wonder what he left his love for! He must be
thinking about my soul" He became agitated
and walked the floor, and at last retired to his
room and gave himself to God. When he cane
out he went to my friends Office and said,
'Since saw you have become Christian"
My friend asked the cause. sit was the card
you left at my office expressing your love that
| started ne thinking" What a small effort
may result in man 5 eternal salvationi
But there are hundreds of people in this
house who will take the word that David
used in the past tense, and employ it i'll the
present tense, and cry out: NO man cares for
my soul" You feel as YOU 20 ont day by day
in the tug and josile OF life that IFS every man
for himself. You can endure the pressure OF
commercial affairs and would consider it al
most impairment for any one to ask YOU
whether you are making or losing money. But
there have been times when YOU would have
drawn your check for thousands of dollars if
some one would onl' help your soul out of its
perplcSties. There are questions about YOUR
higher destiny Shat ache; and distract, and
agonize YOU at times. Let no one suppose
that because you are busy all day with hard
ware, OF dry goods, or groceries, or grain, that
Your thoughts are no longer than
your .yard-stck, and stop at the brass
headed nails Of the Store counter
When you speak once about relig-
ious things you think 5000 times. They
call you wording. You are not a world
ling. Of course you are industrious and keep
busy, but you have had your eyes opened to
the realities of the next void. You are not
fool. You know better than anyone can tell
you that n few years at most viii wind up
your earthly engagements, and that YOU will
take residence in II distant sphere where all
your business adroitncss would be supernui-
~. You sometimes think your head aches
about great IT ig!ous subjects. You 90 down
the street with your eyes fixed on the pave
ment, obliyious of the passing multitudes
your thoughts gone on eternal expedition
You wonder if the Bible is true how much of
1t is teral, and how much is fgurative if
Christ be God, if there is ANYTHING like retrt-
button, II YOU are immortal. il resurrection
will ever take place, what the occupation of
your departed kindred is, what YOU win be
ten thousand years from now. With a cul-
tured placldlty OF couutenance you are on
fire with agitations of soul, o. this solitary
anxiety of your whole lifetime! You have
sold goods o or bought them from Chris ian
people for ten years, and they have never
whispered one word of spiritual counsel You
nave passed up and down the aisles of church
es WITH men who knew that YOU had no hone
of heaven, and talked about the weather. and
your physical health, and about everything but
lhat concerning which you most wanted to
| hear them speak, namely Your everlasting
| spirit. 1ims without plumber YOU have felt
| IN your heart, II you lave not uttered it with
| your lips: No man cares for nv souln
! here have lppu lines " hon
| peclallv plable to the great subject religion.
| III WAS So, lor instance, a ter YOU mad lost YOUR
| property, You had great many letters bow
lng YOU up Tor being unfortunate You
showed thai there had been Il confederation
oi circumstances and that Your insolvency was
no fault of yours. Your creditors talked TO
| you US though they would have 100 cents on a
| dollar or YOUR life. Protest after protest
tumbed in on your desk. Men who used to
take Your hand with both of theirs and shake
| III V'olentl' now pass You on the street with an
| almost lnperceptibe nod After six or eioht
| hours of scaldiug bus ness anxiety YOU 90 home
| and you shut the door and throw Yourself on
ule s"la, and YOU feel in a state of desnair
lou wish mat some one would come in and
break up the gloom. Everything seems to he
/ AGAINST you. The bank against YOU. Your
| friends, suddenly become critical. araiust Won
Your creditors against YOU. All The mast
against you. All the future against you. Yon
make reproachful cutlery, NO man cares for
| nv souln -''
There was another occasion when nil m.
| doors OF your heart swung open for sacred in
iluences. A bright light went out In vonr
household Within three or four DAYS there
were compressed sickness, death obseunips
You we're so lonely that hundred people com.
| ing INTO the house did not break up the soil
tarinesS. You were almost killed with the do
hesilc calamity, \ few formal, perfuuctory
words OF consolation were uttered on the
STAIRS before you went to the grave: hut Won